Friday, March 29, 2013

If you are a writer then it is very essential that you should have some knowledge about the book publishing after writing a great book. Here in this article we have discussed three most significant and basic points that a writer should consider to avoid wastage of their own and the publisher’s time as well. Hope the below mentioned points or the tips will help you lot after completing your book and its publication process.

The very first thing, which writers should keep in their mind that the book publishers don’t really care about content or quality of the book to be published. Even though you will like the fact, but it is a true fact that no matter how interesting topic you have selected or how hard you have worked on your book. The only thing they look for that will enhance total sell of the book and ultimately help them to earn lots of money from it in a period of time. Hence, it becomes very essential for you to do a complete research on your selected topic, even before you start writing on it to make sure that there is a demand on that particular subject or not? If, you have written a book on any topic that does not have much demand in market then in such case you really need to battle hard to publish your book.

The second thing that you should consider is while going to any publisher avoid explaining them the reasons which will make your book as well as you something like great. You just need to explain the reason that will make your book popular and will enhance it sell. To make the publisher understand about it, you can make your own presentation, stating the records of any other book on similar topic or subject along with their demand statistics. The more numbers of examples you can present in front of him/her, it will be much easier for you to convince him/her. In short, we can say that just focus on profit potential rather than the content of your book.

Last step or the last point that you should keep in mind where many individual get disillusioned is that you should keep this in mind that money, which you will make from your book will be very negligible when it get compared with the amount that the publisher will make. If you are actually lucky to have really a big seller that is little rare unless you are any known personality or celebrity, you can be lucky to generate $20,000 after clearing all the smokes whereas your publisher will generate around four times of your work. In simple terms, do not keep your expectation too high, as with just one or first book you cannot make huge profit.

Saturday, March 23, 2013

It
seems that 2013 is a fruitful year for the reader as there are numbers
of books from popular authors are awaited this year and at the same time
there are some that has already been launched in the month of January
and February, 2013. Here are few books that have already been released
in the market and got nice review for it. Here are some of the best
novels released in 2013 in no proper ranking:

Tenth of December (George Sanders)

It
is a comical and heartbreaking book based on American life. In “Home”
soldiers returns after leading the war in Iraq and Afghanistan to the
deteriorating family circumstances. In the “Victory Lap”, spoiled
abduction is stated in three varying perspectives. The “Tenth of
December” has now prompted all-out rave profile from New York Times. For
the fans of George Saunders, the story of the book is set at theme
park.

Scenes from Early Life (Philis Hensher)

This is the eighth novel by Philip Hensher, displays for the very first time
that he has hugely concealed in his past: his heart. The story is
written in form of the memoir, which has been narrated in voice of real
life husband of hensher, Zayed Mahmood, this novel also invites
assessment with the Autobiography of Alice B by Gertrude Stein.
Described as the hybrid of history, fiction and biography – and both as
loving and clever, inventive project that distinctly intriguing.

Vampires in the Lemon Grove (Karen Russell)

The
short stories by Russell are marked by the super follow by: many from
them succeed because of the iron-clad commitment of the writer to often
fantastical prides. The very first collection of her short stories is
St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves that draws powerful metaphor
for the adolescent girlhood in actual orphanage for the girls raised by
writer. Her debuted novel, Swamplandia as her debuted novel set for
Pulitzer prize and now her second book with collection of some of the
best stories has been introduced in February.

See Now Then (Jamaica Kincaid)

This
is first novel by Kincaid in last one decade, where she has settles in
small town of Vermont, where she dismembers the present, past and future
of crumbling marriages of Mrs. Sweet, who has two children, Persephone
and Heracles and how her husband who is also a composer leave her for
younger musician. Kincaid is a writer who is well known for her clean
view through surface of various things.

Give Me Everything You Have – On being Stalked (Jamed Lasdun)

James
Lasdun is an English novelist, poet as well as a short story writer has
introduced a new book that is short memories regarding harrowing and
long experience at hands of former student that set out for destroying
him and by online accusations of theft and sexual harassment.

Monday, March 11, 2013

There
are number of websites that are offering e-books now days and at the
same time they are also offering a great platform to the writers who
want their e-book publishing or e-book promotion through the help of
these websites and www.pegasuspublishing.net is one of them. However,
length acts as a trouble for many of the new author while e-book
publishing.

Let’s find out how long the e-book should be while your e-book promotion.

It
has been said that there is no perfect answer for this question. As per
many of the e-book writers, it has been said that the length of the
book should entirely depend on two elements such as topic and genre of
the e-book. For example if you prefer to write on “how-to, non-fiction
genre.”

If
you are planning to write on subject that are familiar to you such as
freelance writing, e-book publishing or the affiliate or internet
marketing then it is important that you should keep them in between the
word count of 10,000 to 15,000 words, which means 40 to 60 pages
consisting an average of around 257 words on every page of the book.

Of
course, it is not compulsory that you should keep the number of pages
in your mind while writing your book, rather you should try to cover all
the essential points in your book related to your topic so, that your
readers will get a complete idea on that topic. However, such number of
word counts or the number of pages are considered as just perfect for
the e-book and ultimately helps you in your e-book promotion.

When
you will search the answer for the same question on Google, surely will
get many different response, carrying wide range of pages such as:

The
short non-fiction e-book can be as small as of 24 pages consisting 6000
word counts in it, whereas the longer e-books should carry word counts
ranging from 10,000 to 20,000 or from around 30 to 100 pages. However,
you should keep this in mind that the length of the book should entirely
depend on the audience you are targeting. It is also very important
that your information offered in your e-book should be impressive and
not be exaggerated.

Conclusion:
It has been seen that the buyers of e-book get their choice of book due
to various reason such as learn the method to do any particular thing,
to be transported by any story and many more.

Hence,
it becomes very vital that you should know your target audience and the
reason why they will buy your e-book, rather the focusing mainly on the
length of the book. Then only your e-book publishing can be a big hit
and you will get the success in writing e-book as well as e-book
promotion.

Even if you are not an online publisher or an author, but still if you feel enthusiast about writing then you can write and publish your book on pegasus publishing. It is quite simple and you just have to write a book, then re-design it with e-reader format and later publish it on the site.

As, you might be aware about the fact that in today’s time many people opt for e-books to read on various interesting topics as per their choice then in such case it will be great opportunity for the new writers to show their talent to the world as well as to earn some money.

The first thing that you need to require while writing an e-book is to select a category, which should be based on your interest, principles or hobbies. For example, if like self-help books then you can write in topics such as ways to overcome various challenges I life, suitable way of time management, ways to lead a healthy life etc.

Write book outline:

An outline helps in organizing the thoughts and at the same time it directs the flow of the book. It ultimately helps in saving lots of time in long run, rather than starting to write book exactly after you decide on category.
Be sure that you should include all the details of your e-book. For example, if you are planning to write a book on ways to do the flower arrangements that you should try to include color arrangement section, most commonly used flowers along with their names and some affordable place to get the materials and many more.

Start Writing:

Since, here we are discussing about e-book publishing then you should try to use the word processing software while writing the book. It will help you to check the grammar and spelling errors. It will also help you to know the total word count of the book.

Create introduction section:

It is very important that you should include interesting and catchy introduction section for your e-book, which will help you to attract readers for your book. For example, while writing a book on flower decoration you can start with a nice quotation of fun with flower arrangement. You can also enhance the interest of the readers with few questions such as do you want to be an expert in flower arrangement or want show your creativity with flower arrangement?
It is also very important that you should highlight essence of your e-book by offering few ways of flower arrangement. Try to explain your readers that your e-book will help them to achieve their respective goal. At the end of the introduction part doesn’t forget to say thanks to your readers for buying your e-book and making out some time to read it.

Work on chapters:

Try to keep your book and topics shorter and create sections for various topics such as a separate chapter for wedding arrangements, Ikebana arrangement, interior design and many more. Avoid exaggerating any topic as it will lead to boredom while reading unnecessary things. You can use the outline of the e-book to write the chapters.

End with conclusion:

The conclusion is nothing but the summary of the e-book, where you should mention all the important points of the book all again but it should be much shorter than the introduction of the e-book.

Read & Edit your e-book:

It is very important that you should read and then edit the book after completing it for any sort of improvement in it.

After following all the steps while writing your e-book, you can visit www.pegasuspublishing.net to get assure that you have written a book compatible to the website. Now, to upload the book you can follow the various steps mentioned at the site.

Saturday, March 9, 2013

The list of the Best Romance Novels is never ending, as there are number of romance novels you can find online with great stories. However, in this article we will discuss five best romance novels available online of year 2012.

Fifty Shades of Grey (E.L. James):This novel have got first ranking for the best novels of 2012, and it true to some extent. This novel is available in series consisting of three parts and this is the third part. It is a story of a young college girl named as Anastasia Steele who conducts interview of a young but mysterious and wealthy businessman, Christian Grey as a college project. Ana get attracted to him due to his uniqueness and after several meeting they fall for a passionate sensual affair where she starts discovering his dark side hidden deep inside him as well as his persistent need to control by his sadistic sensual practices along with his own desires.

Dream Lake (Lisa Kleypas):The Dream Lake is also the third part of Friday Harbor series and is one of the most popular romance novels. However, to completely understand this novel you need to read the other two novels of this series. It is a story of two love-wrecked persons living in small city referred as Friday Harbor. Alex Nolan is the youngest among the two and is worst affected through his parents’ alcoholism and difficult childhood. Now, after his separation from his wife and paying compensation while his divorce he became financially broken also and falls for alcoholism and at the same time become more bitter and untrusting for others. In this process he gets a companion in the form of ghost names Zoe Hoffman who has her own struggles in life and she was also hurt number of time by her close ones. In the first sight only both runs for each other and get together in unforeseen situations, where regular battle takes place between them which also changes the life of both the, but of course in better sense.

The Witness (Nora Roberts):This exciting romance novel is one of the most popular novels on online resources. It is a story of Elizabeth Fitch, who is a student and keeps the world at her fingertips but just out of the reach because of her father who is a neurosurgeon and map out her life for her. At one evening, being rebellious she drinks too much of alcohol and get seduced by one Russian man and accompany her to his place at Lake Shore Drive. However, she never knew that the night will change her life forever. To know how, you must read the whole novel.

The Marriage Bargain (Jennifer Probst):This is a story of Nicholas Ryan who is looking for a wife for himself and fast in order to get the corporation of his billionaire father for which he needs to be married. However, the only problem that he has is that he has an emotional baggage due to broken home in his childhood and due to which is never believed in love or marriage. Alexa Maria Mekenzie, who is sister of Nike has a female friend who is going through a financial problem, makes a plan to help her by making a brilliant plan to tie both her friend and her brother in marriage for just one year to sort out their respective problems. However, fate had something else for three of them in comparison to what they actually expected.

Last Boyfriend (Nora Roberts):This is a light as well as a warmhearted romantic novel telling story of two friends Avery and Owen who discover each other in quite new form that they had never expected. They lived as the best of friend for the entire life and Owen was the first boyfriend of Avery when she was just 5 years old. Now Owen is planning to start his business with his brother right across the pizza parlor of Avery where she gets more of innocent opportunity to gaze at him. How, Owen helps Avery every time get past of some of her hidden secrets from childhood to know it you have to read the entire novel.

Can self-published books be sold without any special marketing strategies? What are the ways in which Self Publishers can use promotion techniques to make their books known?Some of the options are provided below:Promoting before publishingA smart way of promotion is to people aware of your book even before you get it published. You can choose one of the many options available before the book actually enters into the market. By making use of the various Social Networking Sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Yahoo it is possible for the readers to have a quick promo of your book. You might as well post on your wall a free sample of one of the chapters in the book. This helps you to know the response by your readers and make necessary changes before the book gets published.You can also try writing blogs which make the people aware of your writing skills and the ones who read your blog will definitely be interested in reading your book. This also creates a buzz about your book even before it is published.

Go, Social Networking!It may sound a tad too much to give so much significance to social networks but this is the ultimate reality. This is the one way you can let people know about your talent. Twitter, Facebook or Good Reads and Shelfari meant for Interest and Book Social Networks can do wonders for book and make it a bestseller.

Free is best!Being a new author, it is difficult to have an audience of your own. Therefore it is recommended to give away a free sample of the initial chapter in your book, audio recordings or the entire book as a means to promote your book. Everyone in the world like things given away freely and this can make your book know to all. You can also use the Kindle Select Program through which you can make use of the 5 Promo days to give away your book freely to the readers. This will lead to mouth publicity among people and your book can benefit.

The Virtual tour and Author talkFor readers who are beyond your reach, you can make use of blogs where you can post a virtual tour of your book and also say a few words yourself. You may also call upon a guest to discuss few topics about your book and other related subjects. This will surely have an influence on all the blog readers.

If you really wish to make your book popular among the readers it is necessary that it looks exactly like any other professional book. A book that fits on a book shelf of any store is preferred. What you write inside the book should also resemble other books. Even after finishing the book you have to continue making its look even better. If you are new into writing and self publishing your book, remember it is a long way to go. So if you want people to notice your book, avoid some commonly made mistakes. Unpleasant cover - If the cover page is not attractive enough change it and get it designed from a cover designer by giving away some coins.

Adequate structure – It is important that your book has chapter, serial numbers and a proper start, description in the middle and end. Without these a reader will find it difficult to keep a track of the story and may give up reading the book further.

Lack of proofreading -Try to detect each and every flaw and grammatical mistake in the book. If necessary ask for a proof reader who can most accurately find out minor faults.

No sections - It is always better to include all sections in your book just like any professional book has. The title page, copyright pages, index, publication etc. are some of the few. Your readers will expect all these contents in the book.

Leaving Spaces - Keep it in mind to leave proper space for margin. Making the margins small only makes it difficult and boring. The font and its size should also be well maintained.

No ISBN number -Do not forget to mention the ISBN number and barcode on the back. No book-seller will sell your book without having it.

Less is good – Remember that the reader is expecting a non-fiction book that has constant ups and downs. Keep it short and to the point. Too much becomes boring and reader may not find it interesting to apply your solutions to his problems. Avoid repeating things over and over again.

Lack of solutions to problems –Remember a reader reads your book because he seeks to find some solution to his problems that even you might have faced in your life. Therefore be precise in writing about ways by which you jumped out of the difficult situations. Writing what the reader expects makes you a great author.

Pouring out your heart – A reader does not expect you to write the same old crap that he has read before. Something new and fascinating is always welcome. So try writing things in a more real way and including real life incidences can help too.

Readers are priority – It is your duty to keep in mind what readers expect from your side. Thinking only about money making is not your motto. Your book should have a message for the readers and must support fair practices. Any false statements will make you a bad author.